<p>Mumbai: As part of his ambitious plan to increase the his footprint outside his home state ahead of 2024 general elections, Telangana Chief Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) founder K Chandrashekar Rao’s Maharashtra visits seemed to yield results as it won seats and posts of Sarpanch in the Gram Panchayat elections in this western Indian state. </p><p>According to latest reports, the BRS has won 9 GPs in Bhandara district in Vidarbha region and one GP in neighbouring Beed district in Marathwada region. </p>.Telangana polls: Cong, BJP colluding to defeat KCR and restrict him to state, BRS leader Rama Rao hits out.<p>According to BRS national special media in-charge Jayant Deshmukh, in 18 places, the party’s Sarpanch has been elected. </p><p>“The BRS is gaining momentum in Maharashtra,” he posted on X microblogging site.</p><p>KCR, as Rao is popularly known, plans to contest all the 48 Lok Sabha seats and 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra in 2024 - and had already started preparations stunning the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, which feared division of votes and also proving to be a concern for the ruling Maha Yuti. </p><p>In 2023, KCR had addressed half a dozen rallies in Maharashtra and took darshans at the Lord Vitthal-Rukmini temple at Pandharpur and Solapur district and the Tulja Bhavani temple at Tuljapur in Osmanabad district - ahead of Ashadi Ekadashi festivities.</p><p>It may be mentioned, a BRS Sarpanch was elected in Ambehola village of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district (earlier Aurangabad) in May followed by another Sarpanch winning in Savkheda village of Jalgaon district in June.</p><p>So far, he has personally touched base in Marathwada and Vidarbha regions - and in the he has given the call ‘abki baar, kisan sarkar’ and spoke about the Telangana-model of governance. </p><p>Marathwada incidentally is part of the erstwhile Hyderabad state. </p><p>The Marathwada and Vidarbha regions share a border with Telangana and people in the geographical belt have a close association. </p>
<p>Mumbai: As part of his ambitious plan to increase the his footprint outside his home state ahead of 2024 general elections, Telangana Chief Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) founder K Chandrashekar Rao’s Maharashtra visits seemed to yield results as it won seats and posts of Sarpanch in the Gram Panchayat elections in this western Indian state. </p><p>According to latest reports, the BRS has won 9 GPs in Bhandara district in Vidarbha region and one GP in neighbouring Beed district in Marathwada region. </p>.Telangana polls: Cong, BJP colluding to defeat KCR and restrict him to state, BRS leader Rama Rao hits out.<p>According to BRS national special media in-charge Jayant Deshmukh, in 18 places, the party’s Sarpanch has been elected. </p><p>“The BRS is gaining momentum in Maharashtra,” he posted on X microblogging site.</p><p>KCR, as Rao is popularly known, plans to contest all the 48 Lok Sabha seats and 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra in 2024 - and had already started preparations stunning the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, which feared division of votes and also proving to be a concern for the ruling Maha Yuti. </p><p>In 2023, KCR had addressed half a dozen rallies in Maharashtra and took darshans at the Lord Vitthal-Rukmini temple at Pandharpur and Solapur district and the Tulja Bhavani temple at Tuljapur in Osmanabad district - ahead of Ashadi Ekadashi festivities.</p><p>It may be mentioned, a BRS Sarpanch was elected in Ambehola village of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district (earlier Aurangabad) in May followed by another Sarpanch winning in Savkheda village of Jalgaon district in June.</p><p>So far, he has personally touched base in Marathwada and Vidarbha regions - and in the he has given the call ‘abki baar, kisan sarkar’ and spoke about the Telangana-model of governance. </p><p>Marathwada incidentally is part of the erstwhile Hyderabad state. </p><p>The Marathwada and Vidarbha regions share a border with Telangana and people in the geographical belt have a close association. </p>